Abstract: A method for determining the cylinder air-charge of an internal combustion engine in a non-fired operation, wherein a method for determining the cylinder air-charge in a fired operation is performed. According to the invention, provision is made that in the method for determining the cylinder air-charge in the fired operation, a correction factor is provided as a function of engine speed and engine load which adjusts the value of the cylinder air-charge determined by the method in the fired operation to the non-fired operation. Thus, the previously known methods can be improved and made more efficient, in particular in view of the deviations of up to 30% between the cylinder air-charge values in the non-fired operation and the modeled values of the fired operation.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
August 24, 2020
Date of Patent:
June 1, 2021
Assignee:
Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft
Inventors:
Jan Vogelsang, Tobias Viereg, Marcin Piorun, Andre Shurkewitsch, Heiko Sternberg, Nikolaus Zimbalist
Abstract: Systems, apparatus and methods for a motor vehicle parking robot. The parking robot includes a pair of wheel support arms and a retracted wheel retention arm configured laterally from the outside of the parking robot and configured to lift a wheel of a vehicle by extending the pair of wheel support arms and affix the wheel in place on the parking robot by extending the wheel retention arms.
Abstract: A method, a device and a computer-readable storage medium with instructions for processing sensor data. In a first step, camera images are taken by a camera. Additionally, 3D-checkpoints are detected by at least one 3D-sensor. Optionally, at least one of the camera images can be segmented. The camera images are then merged with the 3D-checkpoints by a data fusion circuit to form data of a virtual sensor. The resulting data are finally output for further processing.
Type:
Application
Filed:
March 27, 2019
Publication date:
May 27, 2021
Applicant:
Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft
Inventors:
Simon Steinmeyer, Marek Musial, Carsten Deeg, Thorsten Bagdonat, Thorsten Graf
Abstract: A method for dynamic gas partial pressure correction of an internal combustion engine with external mixture formation. A mixture formation is carried out in an intake manifold upstream of the cylinder of the internal combustion engine, and in which in addition to the gas partial pressure of the fresh air flowing continuously into the intake manifold, the gas partial pressure of the fuel, fed discontinuously into the intake manifold, is also taken into account. The gas partial pressure of the fuel, fed into the intake manifold, said pressure which is assumed to be stationary as a function of determined parameters, is dynamically adjusted for each of the cylinder-individual, temporally successive injections, discharged into the intake manifold, by means of a correction factor and a fresh air correction filling value.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
May 29, 2020
Date of Patent:
May 25, 2021
Assignee:
Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft
Inventors:
Michael Janzen, Sven Mueller, Pierre Scheller
Abstract: The invention relates, inter alia, to an assembly for fastening an upper shell or a lid to a lower shell of a battery housing, said assembly having at least one fastening element, by means of which the upper shell or the lid is or can be frictionally connected to the lower shell in the region of contact flanges, which correspond with each other and are laid one over the other. The at least one fastening element is formed by a rail element that has a U-profile-shaped cross-section at least in some sections which rail element has a web and an upper and a lower flange and is or can be slid onto the contact flanges from the end edges of the contact flanges, which are laid one over the other, and is or can be at least frictionally connected to the contact flanges as a result of a subsequent movement in the longitudinal direction of the contact flanges.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
September 12, 2017
Date of Patent:
May 25, 2021
Assignee:
VOLKSWAGEN AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
Inventors:
Lutz Schröder, Daniel Weidemann, Sandra Hettwer, Oliver Rauls
Abstract: A method for the secure interaction of a user with a mobile terminal and a further entity includes transmitting a secret or an image of the secret generated by a one-way function and an individual data from the user to a back-end, transmitting the image and the individual data from the back-end to a protected execution environment of a processor of the mobile terminal; notifying the user on a secure user interface of the mobile terminal, wherein the individual data is displayed to the user and wherein the user is authenticated with the secret, the user interacting with a secure element of the mobile terminal having a secure connection with the protected execution environment, via the secure user interface and the protected execution environment; and the secure element interacting with the further entity via a secured connection providing a complete security chain of all entities involved in the interaction.
Abstract: A method for controlling a supercharging system for an internal combustion engine, the supercharging stage including a compressor and a turbine, and the turbine being settable with the aid of a VTG driving circuit. The method including: detecting an operating state setpoint variable, setting a maximum VTG control criterion for implementing the torque increase by an increase in a boost pressure. The setting of the maximum VTG control criterion comprising: ascertaining a setpoint boost pressure; ascertaining a VTG setpoint position as a function of the setpoint boost pressure; ascertaining an actual exhaust gas back pressure; ascertaining an actual exhaust gas pressure downstream from the turbine; ascertaining a maximum exhaust gas back pressure, taking into account the actual exhaust gas pressure downstream from the turbine; determining the VTG control criterion, based on the difference between the actual exhaust gas back pressure and the maximum exhaust gas back pressure.
Abstract: An infotainment system to which data is transmitted including contact data, such as telephone numbers or addresses, or multimedia data, such as audio or video data. The origin of the transmitted data is a mobile terminal, download from a database, an NFC tag or a QR code. Following reception of the data on the infotainment system, the infotainment system checks whether the transmitted data is associated with one of the functions of the infotainment system, a navigation function, and/or a reproduction function for audio and/or video data. If the transmitted data is associated with on the functions of the infotainment system, the infotainment system offers those functions with which the data can be associated to a user of the transportation vehicle for use.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
March 28, 2017
Date of Patent:
May 25, 2021
Assignee:
VOLKSWAGEN AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
Inventors:
Thorsten Lindemann, Axel Köhnke, Stefan Tubbesing, Hans-Udo Pietruschka
Abstract: The invention relates to a socket device for a motor vehicle and to a motor vehicle comprising a socket device. The socket device comprises a housing in which a socket for receiving a plug is arranged. The socket device comprises a mount, by means of which the housing can be mounted at least indirectly on a separating wall of the motor vehicle so as to be able to rotate about an axis of rotation, such that the socket is accessible from both sides of the separating wall by means of a corresponding rotation of the housing.
Abstract: The present invention relates to a method (100) for sending a data packet (430, 440) from a first communication unit (300) of a communication system via a transmission channel that is shared with at least one further communication unit (500). The method (100) comprises determining (110) a current access priority for the shared transmission channel by the first communication unit (300), wherein the current access priority is directed towards data currently transmitted over the transmission channel. The data packet (430, 440) is segmented (120) into packet segments (432, 434), wherein the packet segments (432, 434) have a priority value (410) which corresponds to a priority value (410) of the data packet (430, 440). The method also comprises sending (130) the packet segments (432, 434) from the first communication unit (300) via the shared transmission channel, wherein the packet segments (432, 434) are sent successively depending on the priority value and the current access priority.
Abstract: An exhaust gas turbocharger assembly for a turbocharged internal combustion engine with a spiral housing, having at least two separated flow passages, at least one separating tongue separating the adjacent flow passages, and a turbine rotor, wherein the separating tongue is arranged such that the end of the separating tongue, said end facing the turbine rotor, is spaced from the edge of the turbine rotor such that crosstalk between the flow passages in the flow direction occurs upstream of the turbine rotor, wherein a crosstalk cross section AÜS is determinable depending on the distance between the separating tongue end and the edge of the turbine rotor.
Type:
Application
Filed:
November 9, 2020
Publication date:
May 13, 2021
Applicant:
Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft
Inventors:
Christopher GESSENHARDT, Dirk HAGELSTEIN, Tobias CZAPKA
Abstract: A lighting system for a vehicle and a corresponding motor vehicle is implemented with personalized or individualizable lighting functions. A part of a lighting device is reserved for implementing main lighting functions in accordance with legal requirements and another part of the lighting device is reserved for generating individualizable lighting functions. The part for individualizable lighting functions can be freely programmed and actuated via a user interface, such as a smartphone, within the scope of the technical power limitations of the individual lighting devices while taking into consideration legal requirements.
Abstract: An adapter for a grab handle in the interior of a motor vehicle, having an attachment portion for attaching the adapter to a vehicle body frame and having a retaining portion, which in the mounted state of the adapter, extends starting from the attachment portion in the direction of the vehicle interior and has a region to which a grab handle can be attached, is characterized in that the retaining portion between the attachment portion and the region to which a grab handle can be attached has a plastic formation or a plurality of plastic formations, so that with the forming of a first predetermined buckling line, a bending strength of the retaining portion in a first direction, in which the adapter is typically stressed in an accident situation, is reduced relative to a bending strength in a second direction opposite the first direction.
Abstract: The invention relates to a method for the exhaust-gas aftertreatment of an internal combustion engine (10), and to an internal combustion engine (10) having an exhaust-gas aftertreatment device for carrying out a method of said type. The internal combustion engine (10) is supplied with fresh air by way of a compressor (18), has an adjustable valve control means (12) for the inlet valves (14) and/or the outlet valves (16), and is connected to an exhaust duct (20), wherein, in the exhaust duct (20), there is arranged a first three-way catalytic converter (24), and an injection valve (26) for introducing fuel into the exhaust duct (20) is arranged, as viewed in the flow direction of an exhaust gas of the internal combustion engine (10), downstream of an outlet (22) of the internal combustion engine (10) and upstream of the first three-way catalytic converter (24).
Abstract: The invention relates to a method for secure signal manipulation for testing integrated safety functionalities and to a system for carrying out the method.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
March 3, 2020
Date of Patent:
May 11, 2021
Assignee:
VOLKSWAGEN AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
Inventors:
Henning Dürkop, Marc Neubauer, Alejandro Lorda Cobos